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What do we know about the success rate of psychotropic drug therapies?
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<blockquote data-quote="SuZir" data-source="post: 575992" data-attributes="member: 14557"><p>I don't have personal experience with psychiatric medications. And my son is new to them and little ambivalent about the matter. He isn't on any anti-depressant, at least not yet and I'm bit worried about them causing mania if he has to go that route. And with my dad drugs (both AD and illegal drugs) have cause bouts of mania even though he isn't really bipolar (but not that far from that.)</p><p></p><p>However I do have ancestors and relatives who were suffering bipolar and schizophrenia before there were psychiatric drugs for those conditions. And knowing what kind of life they had (and many of them had lots of advantages that most people at that time didn't) and what kind of life people suffering those same conditions can lead now with the help of the psychiatric drugs, there is no question in my mind that modern medication has made a huge positive difference to the life of mentally ill.</p><p></p><p>And if you only think of modern anti-depressants, mainly SSRI, the statistics of suicides are very telling. And at least in Northern Europe the trend is same in every country. Suicides have come crashing down after 1990. And one of the biggest difference is SSRIs. For example in my country, they are down over 30 % from 1990. Our stats are still high (I think almost double to USA for example), they have always been, partly because what is considered suicide (we don't think suicide is shameful or sinful and because of that things that in many places would be booked as accidents to protect the family (like many suicides made through car accidents) are booked suicides here) and partly because it just is more culturally accepted thing to do than in many other countries. Curiously during that time it has been male suicides that have been crashing down, female suicides have been the same through last hundred years at least.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="SuZir, post: 575992, member: 14557"] I don't have personal experience with psychiatric medications. And my son is new to them and little ambivalent about the matter. He isn't on any anti-depressant, at least not yet and I'm bit worried about them causing mania if he has to go that route. And with my dad drugs (both AD and illegal drugs) have cause bouts of mania even though he isn't really bipolar (but not that far from that.) However I do have ancestors and relatives who were suffering bipolar and schizophrenia before there were psychiatric drugs for those conditions. And knowing what kind of life they had (and many of them had lots of advantages that most people at that time didn't) and what kind of life people suffering those same conditions can lead now with the help of the psychiatric drugs, there is no question in my mind that modern medication has made a huge positive difference to the life of mentally ill. And if you only think of modern anti-depressants, mainly SSRI, the statistics of suicides are very telling. And at least in Northern Europe the trend is same in every country. Suicides have come crashing down after 1990. And one of the biggest difference is SSRIs. For example in my country, they are down over 30 % from 1990. Our stats are still high (I think almost double to USA for example), they have always been, partly because what is considered suicide (we don't think suicide is shameful or sinful and because of that things that in many places would be booked as accidents to protect the family (like many suicides made through car accidents) are booked suicides here) and partly because it just is more culturally accepted thing to do than in many other countries. Curiously during that time it has been male suicides that have been crashing down, female suicides have been the same through last hundred years at least. [/QUOTE]
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